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AGGREGATE HEALTH EXPENDITURES, NATIONAL INCOME, AND INSTITUTIONS FOR PRIVATE PROPERTY

Economics and Politics, 2005
Health expenditures scholars argue that cross-country variation in health spending is largely attributable to differences in national income. Institutions and commitment scholars, on the other hand, find that institutions for private property (e.g., systems of checks and balances) can significantly expand an economy's production possibilities.
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Poverty and private health expenditures in Italian households during the recent crisis

Health Policy, 2017
The global financial crisis that began in 2008 had an overall effect on the health behaviours of Italian households. Aggregate private health expenditures have decreased while the citizens have increasingly been asked to share health costs. The reduction of households' health expenditure could have serious consequences for health, especially if it ...
Sarti, S   +2 more
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Public Expenditures and Private Control? Health Care Dilemmas in New York City

The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society, 1977
As a new President and a new Congress prepare to tackle the health financing and delivery issues they have inherited, attention will focus on the connection between the crisis of exploding health care costs and the financial plight of the urban areas in the nation where the poor and the elderly are concentrated and the tax base eroded by out migration ...
N, Piore, P, Lieberman, J, Linnane
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The impact of changes in private health expenditure on New Zealand households

Health Policy, 2001
The proportion of New Zealand's total health expenditure financed by the public sector has fallen from 87% in 1983/84 to 77% in 1997/98 in real per capita terms. In the paper, we firstly describe changes in private health expenditure in New Zealand and compare these changes with trends in private and public health expenditure in a number of OECD ...
S, Hopkins, J, Cumming
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Private Health Care Expenditure and Child Health Outcomes in the World’s Poorest Countries

Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 2018
Abstract Empirical studies investigating the direct effects of private health expenditure on child health outcomes for the world’s poorest countries are rare. This study attempts to fill this gap. The methodology includes empirical estimations of cross-country annual data for the period 1995-2010 for several low-income countries.
Jehad Yasin, Azmat Gani
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Private health insurance and catastrophic health expenditures of households with cancer patients in South Korea

European Journal of Cancer Care, 2018
This study examines the effects of private health insurance (PHI) on the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) for households with a patient with cancer. This study uses 1-year data from 2013 and households with cancer patients as the unit of research rather than individual household members.
Munjae Lee, Kichan Yoon, Mankyu Choi
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Can Private Health Insurance Reduce the Incidence of Household Catastrophic Health Expenditure in China?

2023
Private health insurance is an important part of China’s multilevel medical security system, which is conducive to improving the medical security level of insured households. Based on Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data, this study uses a logit model to estimate the impact of private health insurance on household catastrophic health expenditure ...
Xiao Li, Long Shi, Jun Chen, Zangyi Liao
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DO HMO PLANS REDUCE HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR?

Economic Inquiry, 2007
I. INTRODUCTION Since the HMO Act was passed in 1973, health maintenance organizations (HMOs) have become one of the most popular types of managed care plans in the U.S. health delivery system. Faced with a dramatic increase in health care costs, HMOs are designed to implement a tight utilization review and authorization process, along with restricted ...
Shin, Jaeun, Moon, Sangho
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Private finance and sustainable growth of national health expenditures.

Journal of health care finance, 2005
This analysis explores the role of the private sector relative to all health spending among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Bi-variate regression was employed for 31 countries using current data. It was found that the share of GDP allocated to health varies among countries, ranging from 5 percent in Turkey to 14 ...
Peter, Hilsenrath   +2 more
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